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‘The mood is heating up’: Germany fears strikes will play into hands of far right (German Farmers Protest)
The Guardian UK ^ | 01 07 2024 | Philip Oltermann

Posted on 01/07/2024 9:26:41 AM PST by yesthatjallen

The symbolism that German farmers chose to express their discontent with the government in the first days of the new year was as unambiguous as it was ominous: by the side of rural roads across the country, there were sightings of makeshift gallows dangling traffic-light signs, a reference to the colours of the three governing parties.

The chilling sculptures are harbingers of unprecedented cross-sector protests and strikes hitting German roads and railways from Monday, and speak of a dramatic change of mood in a country long feted for its consensus-seeking approach to industrial relations, especially compared with its more traditionally strike-prone neighbour France.

With key elections coming up in eastern German states this year, even some farmers fear the new revolutionary spirit could play straight into the hands of a buoyant far right.

An eight-day countrywide protest by agricultural workers, involving motorway blockades and described by the head of the farmers’ association as “the like of which the country has never experienced before”, will go ahead in spite of the government’s partial U-turn on the cuts to diesel subsidies and farming vehicle tax breaks that had triggered them.

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(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: diesel; farmers; germany; protests
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1 posted on 01/07/2024 9:26:41 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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AfD is pointing at tariff-free grain imports from Ukraine and telling the farmers that the government is trying to save the world but not looking after its own
2 posted on 01/07/2024 9:36:01 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: yesthatjallen

UK is a leftist cesspool that join hands with the US Biden cesspool of lies and tyranny.


3 posted on 01/07/2024 9:36:38 AM PST by dforest
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To: yesthatjallen

The Guardian - a rag run by deluded woke children. Trust nothing you see there, nothing.


4 posted on 01/07/2024 9:37:11 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: yesthatjallen
Germany’s constitutional court ruled the government’s . . . plans to repurpose unspent money from pandemic emergency measures for climate action initiatives . . . unconstitutional
5 posted on 01/07/2024 9:38:53 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: yesthatjallen

“cuts to diesel subsidies and farming vehicle tax breaks that had triggered them”

Everybody loves their subsidies and tax breaks.


6 posted on 01/07/2024 9:39:50 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Objective: Permanently break the will of the population to ever wage war again.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Typical headline from The Guardian

Leftist Rag not fit to wrap fish 🐟🐟🐟


7 posted on 01/07/2024 9:58:06 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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Like it or not, believe it or not, German farmers are staging an effective protest.

Protesting farmers stop Germany's vice chancellor leaving ferry

8 posted on 01/07/2024 10:04:54 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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Any response from the ultra extremist far left? Or is that their response.


9 posted on 01/07/2024 10:08:27 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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Like it or not, believe it or not, German farmers are staging an effective protest.“

Well l sure hope so. 7,000 German women sexually assaulted in the last few years, no go zones, Government services draining, German culture being shredded on and on. Is it too late?


10 posted on 01/07/2024 10:16:41 AM PST by gibsonguy
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Now that the (neo )Marxists are in control, strikes by farmers and workers are a ominous and evil thing


11 posted on 01/07/2024 10:17:46 AM PST by PGR88
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"Germany" fears strikes will play into hands of far right"

Who is this "Germany" that fears the "far right"? Left-wing politicians? The media? Presumably, "far-right" Germans are also Germans. Do they fear themselves?
12 posted on 01/07/2024 10:21:21 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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--- "Who is this 'Germany' that fears the 'far right'? Left-wing politicians? The media? Presumably, 'far-right' Germans are also Germans. Do they fear themselves?"

Darn fine questions and thereby observations, especially as reported through the lens of socialist-leaning Britain.

We know now that the National Socialists have been sold to the post WWII world as "far right," while in fact they were socialists. The name says it -- Nazionalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei.

How were they different from the German Communists of pre-WWII Germany. They saw the German Marxists as a "Jewish" form of socialism, and they wanted an Aryan form of socialism. Both were anti-capitalist in their own words. So it was a matter of which thug was the more thuggish. History tells that answer without question, but obfuscates on the terminology with ONE goal.

To keep the dream of socialism alive. These last decades have proven them successful, but over time history corrects even this. Today's "workers strike" -- farmers are indeed workers, while politicians are not -- scare the political elite. Should ordinary folk dismiss their "leaders," whatever will those "leaders" do? And their mouthpieces, the media?

The mood is heating up. As indeed it should. The EU project shows signs of cracks, now. As it should. The Red-Green coalition in Berlin teeters, as it should. In time those darned people -- the 'demos' -- rise up and rebel. So says history.

13 posted on 01/07/2024 10:40:47 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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It’s always the evil, far-left, fascist terrorists who are afraid of far-right members of the population. What the hell are those wacky commies afraid of?


14 posted on 01/07/2024 10:42:13 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The odds of Making America Great Again have now fallen to zero. The American dream is dead.)
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To: rktman

If a red-brown coalition ever happens anywhere, it will be in Germany.


15 posted on 01/07/2024 10:48:31 AM PST by Jim Noble (The future belongs to those who show upqa)
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To: yesthatjallen

Hopefully, the German farmers will get all the way to the UK and replace the traffic lights with Guardian Staff.


16 posted on 01/07/2024 10:51:48 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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The far-left is starting to panic. Their “american dream” of global communism is starting to collapse as the right is starting to “clap” and “hack” back.


17 posted on 01/07/2024 10:55:02 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Remember what happened last time we brought in forced labor. Support Abbott's Underground RR.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Hey Guardian “writers”,
“Far Right” = Totally Correct
Your left wing philosophy is the most consistently failing set of rules in the multiverse. Everything you touch turns into ObamaMarxstuff. One would think that you’d be aware of the saying that those who keep doing the same things and expecting different results are idiots.


18 posted on 01/07/2024 10:55:35 AM PST by Da Coyote
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“there were sightings of makeshift gallows dangling traffic-light signs, a reference to the colours of the three governing parties.”

It’s the same everywhere.

As long as wealth sovereigns are involved in politics and government they will continue to rule not in the best interests of the people.


19 posted on 01/07/2024 11:11:05 AM PST by TheDon (Resist the usurpers! Remember the J6 political prisoners!)
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To: dforest

Go to You Tube and see videos of what Britain looks like today. I was gob smacked. All the major cities like London, Luton, Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, all of them and the smaller cities look like the zombie apocalypse.

I couldn’t believe what I was watching. It’s frightening even. The sun sure has set on The British Empire.


20 posted on 01/07/2024 11:52:10 AM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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